The Wonder Years Release New Song, "Brakeless"

The Wonder Years. Photo Credit: Kelly Mason

Philadelphia’s The Wonder Years, ahead of their livestream show set to take place on Wednesday, October 30th, provided their fans with a special treat: new music. The band have released a brand new song, “Brakeless”, and will be releasing another track “Out On My Feet” in the near future.

Through a statement on their social media pages, the band announced that they were initially planning to release these songs in December, to celebrate the ten-year anniversaries of both The Upsides and Suburbia, I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing. You can read the full statement and check out “Brakeless” below.

The Wonder Years are gearing up to host an epic livestream event this Saturday, where they’ll be performing dueling Blink-182 cover sets, in addition to a full Wonder Years set. You can get tickets here.

“Tonight at midnight, we’re releasing a song we hadn’t planned to release until December. If you’ll indulge us, we’d like to tell you a little about it.
“Brakeless” is one of two new songs we recorded over the summer. We were thinking about ways to celebrate the ten year anniversaries of The Upsides and Suburbia. The two records were released a year apart and, maybe, from the outside, they feel like different eras of the band but internally, it was one long, sleep-deprived blur of rest stop bathrooms, walmart parking lots, airport floors and dirty green rooms. To us, the two records are forever intertwined and needed to be celebrated together.
In a deep-dive through an old hard drive, I (Dan) stumbled onto a voice-note demo dated during the writing of Suburbia. It was a song I never showed the band because I didn’t feel like it had a place on the record and the idea struck me to try to go back in time and turn it into a full song. And then we thought, “If we’re going to do a new song in the style of Suburbia, then we should do one in the style of Upsides as well.” So we did. We went back and dug through old-unused ideas from the era. We reread journals and sifted through memories and we wrote two new songs that we feel would be at home on those records and we got the team back together to do it. Steve Evetts who produced and mixed Suburbia produced these songs and Vince Ratti who produced and mixed Upsides mixed them. Because of the pandemic, Steve produced remotely from California via technology that is way above my pay-grade and so our live engineer, Andy Clarke, engineered for us in person at Retro City Studios in Philadelphia.
Now, like we said, this song wasn’t going to come out for another two months. We challenged y’all to register to vote, check your status and request your mail-in ballot and you showed up in numbers to do that; so we’re keeping our end of the bargain and putting it out now. All that really means is that you should keep your eyes peeled, because there’s more to come and we’re really excited to show you all of what we’ve been working on. ”

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